Re: How to install Opera in Kubuntu 10.04 ?

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:41:29 +0200, Krzysztof Szumny <[email protected]>  
wrote:

> On 25.07.2011 01:46, Larry Alkoff wrote:
>> How to install Opera in Kubuntu 10.04 ?
>>
>> I don't understand why Opera is not in the Kubuntu repositories.
>>
>
> I am not sure, but I think that this is related to licence of Opera.
>

Kind-of.

Long time ago, we requested everyone to sign agreement with us if they  
wanted to distribute Opera - Canonical cared, so they signed it and
Opera was in their repositories for a while.

Then someone decided to change wording in our EULA to NOT allow  
redistribution at all - since it was legal grey area to distros, almost
all of them dropped Opera. When desktop team learned about this, we  
insisted on modifying our EULA once again (that's why there is separate
EULA for unix now). So, now we explicitly allow distributions to include  
Opera in repositories, but we are struggling to get back in.

AFAIK we are back is in repositories for FreeBSD, Gentoo, Arch, Slackware.

We are in process of being reviewed for inclusion in Fedora/rpmfusion (If  
we have anyone from fedora packaging community who is willing to be my  
mentor, then contact me, please).

I don't know if there is anyone, who wants/tries to package Opera for  
Debian/Ubuntu.
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